tallystick

tallystick is a work-in-progress rust library for tallying votes.

Current state is very unstable. It is not currently recommended for use. See checkboxes below for a list of features that are complete.

Goals

1. Ergonomic - Easy to use.
2. Fast - Be the fastest general-purpose vote tallying library in the world.
3. Secure - Have no undefined behavior.
4. Complete - Support all well-known voting methods.
5. Deterministic - Running the same tally twice should never produce different results.
6. Generic - Generic over both candidate and count types.

Features

• [ ] wasm support for use in the browser, or in blockchain smart contracts.
• [ ] rational support for perfectly-precise tallies by using rational fractions instead of floats.
• [ ] fixed_point support for decimal fixed-point tallies, required by some statutes.
• [ ] ffi support for calling from other programming languages.
• [ ] alloc support for embedded and other applications where there is an allocator, but no standard library.

Supported Tally Methods

| Status¹ | Tally Method | Supported Variants | Performance² | Notes | | ------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------- | -------------------------- | | ✓ | Plurality | | 120 million v/s | First Past the Post (FPTP) | | ✓ | Score | | 3 million v/s | | | ✓ | Approval | | 4 million v/s | | | ⚠ | STV | Newland-Britton, Meek, Warren | 3 million v/s | Single Transferable Vote | | | CPO-STV | | | | | ⚠ | Instant Runoff | | | | | | Contingent | | | | | | Supplementary | | | | | ✓ | Condorcet | | 2 million v/s | | | | Copeland | | | | | ✓ | Schulze | Winning, Margin, Ratio | 2 million v/s | | | | Schulze STV | | | | | | Kemeny–Young | | | | | | Minimax | | | | | ✓ | Borda | Classic, Dowdall, Modified | 3 million v/s | | | | Borda - Nanson | Classic, Dowdall, Modified | | | | | Borda - Baldwin | Classic, Dowdall, Modified | | | | | Dodgson | Quick, Tideman | | | | | Ranked pairs | Margin, Winning | | | | | STAR | | | | | | Majority judgment | | | | | | D'Hondt | Sainte-Laguë, Huntington-Hill, Quota | | |

1. ✓ means done, ⚠ means in-progress, blank means not started but support is planned.
2. Single threaded performance measured in votes tallied per second. Benchmarked on a 2017 Macbook Pro.

Contributors

• Patrick Hayes (linkedin) (github) - Available for hire.
• Kurtis Jensen (github)